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A DRIVER FOR ENHANCED INFORMATION

EXCHANGE ON MARITIME SURVEILLANCE

ACROSS EUROPE

Alexandru CHIRICDG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Common Information Sharing Environment

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Outline

• EU Policy on Maritime Surveillance

• CISE initiative

• The EUCISE2020 FP7 PoV project

• National IT interoperability projects

• Perspectives on CISE implementation

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EU policy on Maritime Surveillance

EU supports and promotes:

• Enhanced exchange of information between

maritime surveillance systems

• Improved maritime surveillance awareness

• More efficient and effective operations at sea

EU calls for complementarity among the existing

maritime surveillance IT systems across the EU, also

building on the Inter-agency cooperation on the

European Coastguard functions

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…would work more efficiently if data would be properly shared

CONTEXT

Over 300 MS authorities distributed in 7 maritime sectors

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What is CISE?

CISE aims at creating an operational and technical

interoperability environment

to enable seamless and reliable information sharing

between existing and future surveillance systems and networks

A DRIVER FOR ENHANCED INFORMATION

EXCHANGE ON MARITIME SURVEILLANCE IN

EUROPE

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• a set of agreed specifications for a technical interoperability layer that will ease information exchange.

CISE technical Interoperability

Layer

Agreed common data and service models

Agreed solutions for

technical issues

(technical interface, security)

CISE develops and promotes:

• common procedural guidelines that will support an operational interoperability layer

• possible models for SLAs and MoU that would support the legal aspect of information exchange

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Key Principles promoted by CISE

• Inter-connecting public authorities responsible for

maritime surveillance• civil and military

• regional/sectorial organisations, EU agencies

• Voluntary

• Decentralised (point to point exchange of information)

• Neutral solution (all sectors and systems are important)

• Reuse of maritime data

• Reusing existing tools and systems

• Confidence for information providers (ownership of

the information, access rights, security)

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Roadmap

2018 202020162011

CISE Phases

CISE Projects

Projects to improve IT interoperability at national level

2014Project call

and award

Project development

2015Project

development

2016-17Project

development

DEVELOPMENT & VALIDATION OPERATIONAL

EUCISE2020CoopP

& Incubator

Pilot Projects

(BlueMassMed,

Marsuno)

First communication

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The EUCISE 2020 FP7 PoV Project

• 39 Partners, 16 EU/EEA maritime countries• Open to new partners and to collaboration with EU Agencies

• Pre-operational Validation of the CISE concept• Real surveillance systems

• Real data

• Network of operational

centres

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The EUCISE 2020 FP7 PoV project

Objectives:

• To validate at operational level the main CISE elements

(architecture concept, concepts of operation, standards of

data and services, new services, new processes)

• To develop an open European test-bed for incremental

advancement of CISE in the medium-long term

• To assess which organisational instruments are necessary to

sustain the appropriate governance structure and to

stimulate public-private cooperation

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The EUCISE 2020 FP7 PoV project

Phases:

Phase 1 Design

Phase 2 Development

Phase 3 Validation

2015 - 2016

• Consolidation and refinement of the

interoperability specifications and requirements

• Design of the Test Bed

2017

• Development of the Test Bed implements the interop

specifications + the network (subcontracted)

2017 - 2018

• Validation of the CISE concept using real

maritime surveillance systems and data

• Ex-post assessment

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Registry of authorities

and services

Security services

Collaborative platform

Partner ALegacy System

Partner B Legacy System

CISE Gateway / Node 1

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tor

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CISEGateway / Node 2

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tor

B

End-to-End Communication

(tested in EUCISE 2020)

• Data format A

• Information

Services A

• Common Data Model

• Common Communication

Protocols and Information

Services (Service model)

• Data format B

• Information

services B

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EUCISE2020 Achievements (2017- 2018)

• Refinement of the Use Cases

• New version of the Common Data and Service models

• Requirements and technical specifications for the common

software components

• Gateway/Node

• Adaptor

• Network Security

• Service/Authority Registry

• Collaborative services

• First software prototypes (September 2017)

• Templates for Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

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National Interoperability Projects

Annual calls for project proposals opened to national authorities

• Under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) for 2014-

2020

• Budget set aside to support the integration of maritime surveillance

at national level and across MS

Objective:

• Foster the information exchange across sectors and borders

by supporting the improvement of IT interoperability

between national authorities’ systems

Activities funded at national level:

• Studies

• IT developments

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National Interoperability Projects

2014 Call

• 7 projects

• 28 Authorities from 5 Member States: ES, FI, GR, PT, RO

• Duration: 1-2 years (from Jan 2016 to Dec 2017)

2015 Call

• 3 projects

• 13 Authorities from 4 Member States: BG, CY, ES, GR

• 1-2 years

• Duration: 1-2 years (from Jan 2017 to Dec 2018)

2016-2017 Call

• 3 projects

• 12 Authorities from 2 Member States: BE and FR

• Duration: 1-2 years (from Jan 2018 to Dec 2019)

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MS with Interop Projects

501 YIN

602 SINKER

Hellenic CISE

CISEROM

SAIS

SMACS IT-2I

FIN-CISE

CY CISE

InBulMars

SHAREMARE

MS involved in the 2014 Call

MS involved in the 2015 Call

MS involved in the 2016-17 Call

CISE-ext

CISE DMSMAIDEN

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EUCISE2020 test-bed Network

GW

A

GW

A AA

GW

A

GW

A

AGW

AGW

GW

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GW

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GW

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Perspectives on the CISE implementation

The future CISE implementation (by 2020) is set to be based on

the following key aspects:

• EUMSS context (direct support to Maritime security)

• Complementarity - with the other developments (MARSUR,

EUROSUR, NSW, VMS/FLUX, EU Inter-agency cooperation, etc)

• Interoperability solutions

• Exchange of information

• Governance

• Ensure civil-military information exchange

• Approach: Distinguish 3 layers of information flows and

interoperability within and between them

Layer 1: the exchanges among EU Agencies (mandatory)

Objective: Consolidate the information received from Member States

and other sources to enhance a common situational awareness at sea

• EU Agencies will continue to develop new added-value information

services and include relevant information exchange with military

authorities;

• The cooperation/interoperability between EU agencies systems will

be further improved.

Layer 2: the exchange between Member State authorities and EU Agencies (mandatory)

Objective: Continue to support a better flow of information to comply

with EU legislation

• EU Agencies will further consolidate and distribute the information

from Layer 1 to Member State authorities;

• Aim at extending the data sharing and exchange between the EU

level and a wider group of Member State authorities that do not

currently benefit from the available information;

• The interoperability between each EU agency's systems and MS

systems will be further addressed.

Layer 3: the exchange within and among Member States authorities (voluntary)

Objective: Allow for a point-to-point information exchange nationally,

across sectors and borders

• The exchange will be comprised of information held at national level,

including that provided by Military authorities – coherence/

complementarity with data exchange in layer 2 should be achieved

• CISE Interoperability solutions will be promoted to support MS

authorities inter-connecting their systems and will be further

consolidated after the end of the EUCISE2020 – validation of national

solutions against interoperability solutions used under layers 1 and 2 and

agreed standards should be performed;

• The support to operational and coordination aspects between Member

States authorities, the transition to operations and the day-to-day

operations could be performed/ supported by an EU agency (EMSA).

• Enable a clear distinction between:

- mandatory initiatives (compulsory information exchange embedded in Union

law) and

- non-mandatory initiatives (voluntary information exchange, not covered by

the union law, i.e. civ-mil information exchange or nationally held information)

• Ensure coherence and complementarity in providing services

• Take into account essential needs such as consolidating the trust and

cooperation between EU maritime stakeholders; facilitating seamless and

secure exchange of information, etc.

• Distinguish 3 layers of information flows and interoperability within and

between them

Conclusion: EU approach to future maritime surveillance

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